(Crown Point, IN) - Another new Franciscan Health hospital is going to go up in Northwest Indiana.  Groundbreaking is scheduled Thursday on a $200 million dollar facility along Interstate 65 near Crown Point.  Construction is expected to take about two and a half years, hospital officials said.

Franciscan Health opened a new hospital along Interstate 94 outside Michigan City about two-years ago.  They also teamed up with Beacon Health Systems on a new miniature hospital in La Porte along State Road 2 on the city’s west side.  The La Porte facility recently opened several weeks ago.